Reusable sanitary pads bring girls back to the classroom

Local Hero nominee Lindy van der Vyver, 64, from Kei Road, spends ten hours a week cutting fabric and sewing buttons onto renewable sanitary pads to help young girls stay in school through her NPC, Made for Girls. “Girls miss five days of school a month because they have no access to menstrual products.

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